Happy New Year – First Post of the Year

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Jan 142010
 

Hello Everyone!

Firstly hope everyone’s New Year is off to a good start. I am way behind in posting. Mostly due to having the flu for the entire two weeks over the holiday season. I was very dissappointed that I wasn’t able to do any airgun related building during that time. Instead, I spent most of my time in bed and missed out on all family gatherings and good food. Looking back now, to have our health is a blessing. That blessing comes from God!

Concept 4 – Project

I did get four tank adaptors/valves made by another company. I will post a new page soon with pictures of the stainless, cnc machines parts. Parts still need some work. I had an idea to change the design of the valve and may try to implement a different valve on one rifle to see if the valve design will be feasible.

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Hughes – Buckley Airgun

I received an email today from a Mr. Hughes in the UK. He has built a rifle using Buckley’s design. Looks really nice in my opinion.  I will create a page for all his pictures soon. Below is a picture of the gun.  Mr. Hughes is working on another 25 shot repeater and it will be done early spring. I am looking forward to viewing the rifle and hope he will allow it to be posted here for all to enjoy.

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Sweden – Bullpup

Our friend in Sweden, Mr. Schaefer has been quietly building a bullpup rifle. He recently sent me some images and will post a new page when I can. He again sent some building pictures and will post for all to enjoy.

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Schaefer’s bullpup looks inspired by Buckley’s design. The reservoir design allows for many variations of building this rifle. Airtank can be in the back or front. The  hammer can open valve either  direction pending design and placement of the air hole opening.

I hope to be able to accomplish a lot of updates in the next two weeks. I have been working on a design for another company in the evenings so my time is limited. Hoping to wrap up that project and get focused all my projects.  Thanks for reading. Please feel free to comment or email. ~ Pedro

Books & Valves – Airguns

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Jun 052009
 

Books – I have had a few inquiries regarding the books by H.M. Buckley in the past few weeks. The best way to get the books is to email or send him a letter. Mr. Buckley is busy and it may take some time before you hear back from him so keep trying.

Valves – A few other people have recently emailed having questions about valves. I do not know how much detail to provide but will say that Delrin plastic seems to work best. I could be wrong, but that is what I have been using.  A softer plastic might work better? Experimentation is the key.

Here is a picture of a valve I found in a Russian Forum.

Airgun Valve

valve designAbove pictures shows how the valve could be used. There are many ways a valve could be designed using this simple stem and plastic poppet.

Other – I was going through my collection of airgun related data and found this airgun built by someone in Russia. I do not know much about it. Looks like it is chromed, but could be stainless? I think it looks sharp, but would prefer a blue stock myself.

Red Airgun

 

Red Airgun

Red Airgun

 

The air rifle does look sharp. Not sure if it is custom made or manufactured by a company.

This past week was very busy. Started my new job and spent two evenings working for a customer from my previous venture. Makes for a long tiresome week.  Not sure when I will be able to continue building the airguns I started in March of this year. I am going to see if I can  possibly  finish the air rifles after hours at my dad’s shop.

I would like to do so much more but right now limited time (once again) to dedicate to airguns. Was thinking earlier while planning on adding to this blog that a page with airgun tips would be usefull?. Readers could supply tips that they find usefull related to airguns, whether improvements to existing air rifles or hunting gear, and any other thing related to airguns and I would post the tips either on a web page or a new blog type page with categories. Mind you there are enough forums one can visit, just a thought.

If anyone reading is building or has  built an air rifle would enjoy seeing it. Send an email to airgundevelopment@hotmail.com.

Thanks for reading ~ Pedro